Horror movie star Michael Villella has died at the age of 84, according to TMZ.
The actor’s daughter Chloe told the outlet he died on Saturday afternoon after suffering multiple organ failure. He had been in the hospital for the last month.
She also shared a brief message about his passing on Facebook. ‘May you rest in peace daddy,’ Chloe wrote, alongside a heart emoji.
Her words captioned a picture of a lit candle beside a photograph of her father on a white kitchen countertop.
Villella is best known for playing Russ Thorn in 1982 horror flick The Slumber Party Massacre. He also starred in Love Letters, Wild Orchid II, and Gotham.
Fans mourned the actor’s passing online. One X user said Villella ‘portrayed a terrific, underrated villain. RIP.’
‘His contribution to the horror genre has always been woefully underrated,’ another person wrote on X.
A Reddit user described Villella as ‘one of my favorite slasher villains’.
Horror movie star Michael Villella has died at the age of 84, according to TMZ
‘Ok that’s it no more horror icons are allowed to die until 2025,’ another person on the platform wrote – after Tony Todd, who played the titular serial killer in the Candyman horror franchise, also died in Los Angeles on Wednesday night aged 69.
